gangly

Example Sentences

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“I want to devote my entire life to military service,” the gangly teen told The Wall Street Journal last spring as he prepared to take his oath of service at a base in east Ukraine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

It was a counterintuitive choice, turning the guy who led the country in touchdown passes into a rusher whose gangly 6-foot-5 frame sometimes made it look like he was sprinting on a frozen lake.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

But bassist Garry Tallent never smiled that much, and Springsteen’s onstage foil, the Big Man, Clarence Clemons, was never awkward or gangly the way he is portrayed here; the man was elegance personified.

From Salon • Oct. 28, 2025

Wiggins - a gangly north Londoner, from a broken home, brought up in poverty - made it to the very top of a sport that requires clinical preparation and a calm head under pressure.

From BBC • May 13, 2025

Even before he raised the glasses he knew it was a boy, a teen-ager, gangly, lanky, tall.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols